Chapter 31

She couldn’t fathom what was so special about Natalie. Audrey had racked up a mountain of debt with the Howard family. Despite the family’s outright disdain for both Audrey and Natalie, Brian kept showing Natalie mercy!

But Brian withdrew his arm, replying coldly, “Stay at home until the heat from those nasty comments online dies down. You don’t want the media making a meal out of it. Head back, will you?”

“1.” Gracia was at a loss for words, watching as Brian turned and reentered the hotel.

Gracia was still fuming from yesterday’s debacle.

Gavin had given Brian the excuse that with Gracia’s reputation plummeting after the trending scandal, casting her as the lead in the decade–in–the–making blockbuster of Global Entertainment Group would be a financial bloodbath.

Besides, it was Davis who had snagged that opportunity for Gracia, not Brian. He seemed utterly disinterested in the matter. Ever since Natalie’s return, Brian seemed progressively more indifferent to Gracia’s affairs.

Gracia thought to herself, “I had to take action and reel Brian back to me like before.”

“…Don’t you know how Natalie landed that role? She was a nobody before, so how does she walk straight into a third lead role the minute she joins the company? Don’t you find that odd?” An actress whispered.

she

president’s office with him alone for nearly an hour! And at the dinner earlier, she seemed to be flirting with the producer,

the two lead actresses from the dinner party whispering to each

him.

moment, he had been bewitched into thinking

was the one doing

bathrobe and checked

[Do you need money?]

pondered briefly

the hacker forum] King

and Natalie hadn’t visited the forum. King’s message suggested something was up,

a legitimate international second–hand trading site, was in reality a nexus for hackers worldwide.

stumbled upon a trending post about herself. “FireWing snagged a big contract

Z DE FOSS FO &

frowned and skimmed the post. It was filled with envious jabs from lesser talents, bitter about her meteoric

after creating a nearly invulnerable security code sequence for a firewall system, a code no one had yet

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